Online Applications Available Offline - Now I’m Interested - posted by Day Tooley
Last week I found myself immobilized when the parental monitoring software (SafeEyes) on our family computer could not attach to its mother server. Parental administrative override didn’t work either. Fatal error message. I was offline until the SafeEyes server came back online.
I expect to need an Internet connection for applications such as email. Somehow, what I do on my computer needs to get to your computer. But when working independently on a document, I don’t want to be dependent on being connected to a distant 3rd-party server. That’s why I invest $$$ for desktop applications from distant software giants like Microsoft and Adobe.
The estrangement of desktop applications and web-based applications may be coming to an end. On May 30th, Google released a set of tools called Google Gears to software programmers to help make online applications available offline..
Google plans to use Gears to make other programs like Gmail, Calendar, and most notably, Docs and Spreadsheets, available offline. Google’s Reader application is the first to incorporate the new tool. In technology terms, evolution and intelligent design are converging.
How about your business? Ready to retire your expensive office productivity suite?
June 1st, 2007 by Day TooleyOne Response to “Online Applications Available Offline - Now I’m Interested”
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I use Safe Eyes extensively (between work and play, 15+ hours per day) and haven’t had any trouble with them at all. These last few weeks I’ve been putting in extra hours and haven’t had the first outage.